Word: technician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, baldish, 44, Editor Kiplinger makes no bones about his status as a layman, "not an expert, not an 11th degree economist, not a technician in the upper realms of economic theory." Indeed, he believes his value to businessmen derives from the fact that "he lives and works in the earthly gardens." And in Letter No. 25 he asks that his conclusions and suggestions be challenged, leaving two blank pages for the reader's notes. Probably he will be challenged most frequently not on his conclusions but on his use of the word "inflation." What he has largely...
...months famed Radio Engineer Wormys feared that a Nazi "murder party" from Germany would get him, as Nazis got German Philosopher Theodor Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
...ceased to wear heavy lead-filled rubber gloves and aprons as a positive shield against x-rays which, while harmless to the patient, might seriously injure the examiner. Mayo Clinicians assured the profession that ordinary leather gloves and plain clothing gave the x-ray technician all the protection he needed. Recently, however, Mayo radiologists tested their data, found themselves wrong and frankly recanted in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Not to leather gloves and plain clothing went credit for the fact that Mayo Clinicians had suffered no harm but to the unexpected ability of human beings to stand strong repeated...
...expected that Standley will serve as technician in the conferences and be the export on naval matters...
...mere act of earning a sheepskin is not so hard; it takes only time (four years) and money (a couple of thousands, or so) and then the master technician of the future generation finds the gates of a not-too-receptive world opening...